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      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63463/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) only makes protective award payments to employees if their employer is insolvent and an employment tribunal has determined that there was insufficient consultation, by the company, administrator or liquidator, regarding redundancies and makes a protective award.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>In the last five financial years, the RPS has paid out the following in statutory payments for cases where a protective award was awarded:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>· 2009-2010 £87,209,871.62<\/p><p> <\/p><p>· 2010-2011 £82,604,201.50<\/p><p> <\/p><p>· 2011-2012 £68,181,382.07<\/p><p> <\/p><p>· 2012-2013 £57,267,407.27<\/p><p> <\/p><p>· 2013-2014 £7,937,522.34<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The protective award payments made on these cases (in addition to the statutory payments) were as following:<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><ul><li>2009-2010 £28,808,241.65<\/li><li>2010-2011 £30,997,901.63<\/li><li>2011-2012 £23,437,557.92<\/li><li>2012-2013 £29,290,224.74<\/li><li>2013-2014 £16,581,330.05<\/li><\/ul><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>These figures include cases in administration and those in liquidation<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>A breakdown of the individual cases is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
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        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many times the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Service has made payments of protective awards due to failures on the part of the company or administrator to conduct a proper collective consultation in each of the last five years; to which companies such awards were made; and how much was paid out in (a) statutory entitlements and (b) protective awards in each such case.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1533", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Kingston upon Hull North"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Diana Johnson"}
      ], "uin" : "202006"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63466", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63466/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p> <\/p><p>Under legislation, a protective award can be made where it is determined that there was insufficient consultation in situations involving 20 or more redundancies in one establishment. The Redundancy Payments Service makes payments, to affected employees, where an employment tribunal has made an award and the employer is insolvent.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>The Employment Appeal Tribunal, in the Woolworths case (USDAW v WW Realisations 1 Ltd and others), decided that it should remove the European test of \u2018establishment' from UK law. The Department is appealing this judgment as we do not agree with this interpretation of the law.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>We think the right interpretation of the law is that employers must consult employee representatives if making 20 or more redundancies at one establishment. In a dispute, it is for the employment tribunals to decide what is an establishment on the facts of each individual case.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Until the Woolworths appeal is determined, employment tribunals are staying (not deciding) claims from employees who worked on sites with fewer than 20 proposed redundancies and the RPS is unable to make payments to such employees.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Information on the number of affected cases is not readily available and could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Insolvency"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many outstanding protective awards to be paid by the Insolvency Service's Redundancy Payments Services are owed to firms in which less than 20 people are employed on one site.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1533", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Kingston upon Hull North"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Diana Johnson"}
      ], "uin" : "202009"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63548", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63548/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Since 1<sup>st<\/sup> April 2012 the National Trading Standards Board (NTSB) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Units in England and Wales, and Trading Standards Scotland (TSS) has been responsible for the Illegal Money Lending Unit in Scotland. The NTSB and TSS decide what proportion of their total grant funding (provided by BIS) should be allocated for delivery of these functions. Before April 2012 Government directly funded all three of the Illegal Money lending Teams.<\/p><p>Below are the budgets allocated to the Illegal Money Lending teams over the last four years.<\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong> <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>England<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>Wales<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p><strong>Scotland<\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014/15<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>£3.60m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.63m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.4m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013/14<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>£3.91m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.67m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.4m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012/13<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>£4.13m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.59m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.38m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011/12<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>£4.07m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.65m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.48m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010/11<\/strong><\/p><\/td><td><p>£4.07m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.65m<\/p><\/td><td><p>£0.48m<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-06-30T15:42:10.5464652Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Illegal Money Lending Teams: Finance"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how much he allocated to the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which figures are available.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3909", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Pamela Nash"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Airdrie and Shotts"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Pamela Nash"}
      ], "uin" : "202104"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63549", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63549/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p> <\/p><p>The one price six-days-a-week postal delivery service to all addresses in the UK is clearly set down under the Postal Services Act 2011 as part of the minimum requirements of the UK's universal service and can only be changed by Government with the approval of both houses of Parliament. The protection is exactly the same for rural areas as urban areas of the UK.<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p>Parliament has given Ofcom the primary statutory duty to protect the ongoing provision of the universal service throughout the country and ensured that Ofcom has the regulatory powers and tools it needs to intervene if the universal service is ever at risk. More information about the regulatory framework for postal services can be found on Ofcom's website (<a href=\"http://www.ofcom.org.uk/\" target=\"_blank\">www.ofcom.org.uk<\/a>).<\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p><p> <\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-06-30T15:24:41.8209667Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Postal Services: Rural Areas"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what plans he has to ensure that the six days a week universal Royal Mail service continues in rural areas.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1409", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Mr Gregory Campbell"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "East Londonderry"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Mr Gregory Campbell"}
      ], "uin" : "202198"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63555", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63555/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>The numbers of full-time and part-time staff that have been employed by the Illegal Money Lending Units in Scotland, England and Wales over the last four years are as follows:<\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td colspan=\"3\"><p>Full-Time<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>Part-Time (full time equivalents)<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Financial Years<\/p><\/td><td><p>England<\/p><\/td><td><p>Wales<\/p><\/td><td><p>Scotland<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>Wales<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2014/15<\/p><\/td><td><p>58<\/p><\/td><td><p>7<\/p><\/td><td><p>8<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>1.9<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2013/14<\/p><\/td><td><p>63<\/p><\/td><td><p>7<\/p><\/td><td><p>8<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>1.9<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2012/13<\/p><\/td><td><p>63<\/p><\/td><td><p>7<\/p><\/td><td><p>8<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>1.6<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2011/12<\/p><\/td><td><p>50<\/p><\/td><td><p>6<\/p><\/td><td><p>8<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>0.8<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>2010/11<\/p><\/td><td><p>Unavailable<\/p><\/td><td><p>9<\/p><\/td><td><p>8<\/p><\/td><td><p> <\/p><\/td><td><p>0.8<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Trading Standards is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and so it is not possible to provide comparable data.<\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-06-30T15:45:03.5903187Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
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      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-24", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Money Lenders"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time and part-time staff were employed to work in the Illegal Money Lending Unit in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland in each of the last four years up to the most recent period for which records are available.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/3909", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Pamela Nash"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Airdrie and Shotts"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Pamela Nash"}
      ], "uin" : "202197"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63144", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63144/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>This Department does not hold information on to whether or not individual employers recognise a trade union or not.<\/p><p>You may be interested in the following figures, from the 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Study (WERS), showing percentage of workplaces with recognised unions where the workplace is located in Scotland, the other Government Office Regions and Great Britain as a whole. This does not include information on Northern Ireland workplaces where employment law is devolved.<\/p><table><tbody><tr><td><p>Government Office Region<\/p><\/td><td><p>Percentage of workplaces with recognised unions<\/p><p>(%)<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>North East<\/p><\/td><td><p>38<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>North West<\/p><\/td><td><p>21<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Yorkshire and Humberside<\/p><\/td><td><p>34<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>East Midlands<\/p><\/td><td><p>31<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>West Midlands<\/p><\/td><td><p>23<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>East of England<\/p><\/td><td><p>16<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>London<\/p><\/td><td><p>16<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>South East<\/p><\/td><td><p>10<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>South West<\/p><\/td><td><p>13<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Wales<\/p><\/td><td><p>31<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Scotland<\/p><\/td><td><p>30<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><p>Great Britain<\/p><\/td><td><p>22<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>More information on the WERS data is available at: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workplace-employment-relations-study-wers\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/workplace-employment-relations-study-wers<\/a><\/p>"}
        , "answeringMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1497", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jenny Willott"}
        }
        , "answeringMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Cardiff Central"}
        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
        , "dateOfAnswer" : {"_value" : "2014-06-30", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        , "isMinisterialCorrection" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
        , "questionFirstAnswered" : [{"_value" : "2014-06-30T15:47:50.4226796Z", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
        ]}
      , "answeringDeptId" : {"_value" : "26"}
      , "answeringDeptShortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      , "answeringDeptSortName" : {"_value" : "Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      , "date" : {"_value" : "2014-06-23", "_datatype" : "dateTime"}
      , "hansardHeading" : {"_value" : "Trade Union Recognition"}
      , "houseId" : {"_value" : "1"}
      , "legislature" : [{"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/terms/25259", "prefLabel" : {"_value" : "House of Commons"}
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      ], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate he has made of the number of companies registered in (a) Paisley and Renfrewshire North constituency, (b) Renfrewshire, (c) Scotland and (d) the UK that do not recognise trades unions.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
      , "tablingMember" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/members/1464", "label" : {"_value" : "Biography information for Jim Sheridan"}
      }
      , "tablingMemberConstituency" : {"_value" : "Paisley and Renfrewshire North"}
      , "tablingMemberPrinted" : [{"_value" : "Jim Sheridan"}
      ], "uin" : "201716"}
    , {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63146", "AnsweringBody" : [{"_value" : "Department for Business, Innovation and Skills"}
      ], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/63146/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : "<p>Figures are not available at the level of detail requested.<\/p><p>Official statistics covering corporate insolvencies for England and Wales are not available at sub-national level, as the data supplied to the Insolvency Service does not include location information. The latest national level figures are available at: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-january-to-march-2014\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-january-to-march-2014<\/a><\/p><p>Official statistics covering individual insolvencies are available at the level of parliamentary constituencies, but do not separately identify bankruptcies where the individual was self-employed. The latest figures, covering the period 2000 to 2012, are available at: <a href=\"https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-individual-insolvencies-by-region\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/insolvency-statistics-individual-insolvencies-by-region<\/a>. An update to this publication, covering the calendar year 2013, will be published as a statistical release on Thursday 10 July 2014.<\/p>"}
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        }
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        , "answeringMemberPrinted" : {"_value" : "Jenny Willott"}
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